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The most recent Arts & Humanities events come to you via RSS from webcast.berkeley.edu. Browse the tabs for a rich array of archived events...
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How can the arts and humanities meet the challenges of contemporary society without relying on notions of socio-economic impact? This talk contributes to current debates on whether and why the arts and humanities matter to society, and how their value can be articulated in ways that avoid over-simplifications and the crude equivalence of ‘value' with ‘utility' in a narrowly instrumental interpretation of ‘impact'.
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Curator Jacqueline Chao with Featured artists Angela Cazel Jahn and Stephen Marc discuss the Spring 2011 Origins Art Exhibit that runs through April 29, 2011 at the ASU Tempe campus. Angela Cazel Jahn's piece, "Our Little House of Once Was Knowledge" is featured in the lobby of Hayden Library on the ASU Tempe campus. Her exhibit is a small house structure containing boxes full of bits of what people think are knowledge resting on a foundation of books and artifacts including...
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UC Berkeley special events, interviews, and lectures featuring distinguished faculty and guests. To view these events as webcasts visit webcast.berkeley.edu. Full course lectures available, too. Opening and Keynote Opening Remarks Tom Gold , UC Berkeley George Breslauer , Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, UC Berkeley Keynote Address: China's Environment: Opportunities and Challenges for the International Community Barbara Finamore is a Senior Attorney at the Natural Resources Defense...
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Scarlett Rebman is the Director of Grants for Humanities New York. She spoke with correspondent Melissa Bromley about what the humanities are, why they're important, and how Humanities New York serves our state.
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Juliann sits down with Prof. Bouchard to discuss the Humanities Institute - How it came to be, what it means, and the benefits a minor. They also discuss the possibility of a new building on campus to house the institute
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Third Spacing is the yet to be defined space between cells and vessels, where fluid moves from one space to another. In sociology, the Third Space is where people talk about things that matter to them towards connection.This podcast makes space to explore topics surrounding clinical medicine. We talk to doctors with unusual lifepaths and passions, professors who shaped our traditions or our futures, pioneers who took risks in arts, civil society, education, research to expand the possibilities...
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Multicasting Service National Press Club Luncheons Press Club: Sheldon Hackney, National Endowment for the Humanities Sheldon Hackney, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, speaks on "Beyond the Culture Wars," on how to define the humanities, and how to strike a grand national conversation. The National Press Luncheons are brought to you by the sponsors of the Internet Multicasting Service under an agreement with the National Press Club Board of Governors.
Topics: Internet Talk Radio, National Press Club
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Tracklist: 1. Band 1: Friends 2. Band 2: Let's Celebrate the Seasons 3. Band 3: What's So Funny?/ Ready to Laugh 4. Band 4: Animals 5. Band 5: Playing with Proverbs 6. Band 6: Swaying 7. Band 1: Dance Variations 8. Band 2: Talking Drums Of West Africa 9. Band 3: I Saw a Polar Bear 10. Band 4: Traditional Giveaway Song 11. Band 5: Weather Changes
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Tracklist: 1. Band 1: The Happiest Day Of My Life 2. Band 2: Shadow Sing 3. Band 3: Rhythm 4. Band 4: Green Song 5. Band 5: Feelings 6. Band 6: Making Things 7. Band 7: Animal Rhythm Band 8. Band 8: Listen 9. Band 1: Different Feelings in Music 10. Band 2: Sprouting Seed 11. Band 3: Robot Human 12. Band 4: Sounds of Animals 13. Band 5: Two Music Games 14. Band 6: Changing Rhythm 15. Band 7: Name Chant 16. Band 8: Rhythm in Poetry 17. Band 9: Drum, Pipes and Zither
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In the second part of our interview with Dr Devanand, we also discuss how the medical humanities can grow further in Singapore. Along the way, Dr Devanand shares his insights into the value of Narrative Medicine and the implications of Defensive Medicine on how clinicians approach their work today. We end the interview by discussing what his favourite books are.
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Associate Professor Graham Matthews is Head of English and Coordinator of the Medical Humanities Research Cluster at NTU Singapore. In the first of our two-part interview, A/Prof Matthews provides a broad overview to the Medical Humanities, an interdisciplinary field that draws from literature, philosophy and history, to understand illness or the experience of disease. He also introduces us to developments within the field, including Critical Medical Humanities, the works of Katherine...
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In the first part of this two part series, we talk to Dr Devanand Anantham, Director of the SingHealth Medical Humanities Programme and Head of SingHealth Duke-NUS Lung Centre, about the role of the Medical Humanities in the hospital.He shares the possibilities of infusing the humanities into the teaching of medicine and clinical practice and an upcoming programme aims to instil in healthcare professionals a deeper understanding of sickness and suffering through various disciplines such as...
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Summer of Love 2017: Recording
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Found this cassette in a lot and havn't been able to find it anywhere online so here it is for the 3 people in the world who care.
Topics: podcast, talkshow, radio
Children of the world have nothing to lose but their chains in the March episode of Well Reds!Join Simon Fraser University Institute of the Humanities Director Samir Gandesha and Juno-award-nominated host Charlie Demers for a gritty and granular conversation on 'Communism for Kids' from MIT Press.Find 'Communism for Kids' at our sponsor Galiano Island...
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Baltimore's violence prevention programs will be getting some new funding. Maryland health officials say they are getting a handle on monkeypox. The state's Republican and Democratic candidates for governor share vastly different views at a Marylanders With Disabilities forum. Governor Larry Hogan has been asked to testify in the trial of his former chief of staff. Baltimore has a new map for its police districts and October brings dozens of free arts events to Baltimore. See...
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A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it and hours and hours of bonus content by signing up at the $5 level. Catherine Liu is Professor of Film & Media Studies in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine and author of Virtue Hoarders The Case against the Professional Managerial Class (2021)
Topics: Podcast, Islam, Orient, mena, middleeast, occident, oreintalism, postcolonial
Episode 5In this episode, we're joined once again by my counterpart from the Faculty of Arts, Dean Kevin Kee, as we discuss how as academics, we see digital humanities combined with engineering impacting entrepreneurship and the digital tech and media industrial sector.In addition to Kevin, we're joined by Professor Hanan Anis who is a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Ottawa and by Constance Crompton, an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa's...
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Episode 1 - This is a welcome episode for Oh, The Humanities! (and Social Sciences).Please subscribe and leave a review!@MrMCimino
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The production of culture is an open-ended and highly political process that demarcates the experience of daily life and its continuity and change within social institutions from the family to the state. The construction of modern ethnic identities and their politicization revealed the crucial role of the 19th and 20th century development of the intellectual ‘disciplines' and institutions of the humanities and social sciences in the imagining and dissemination through mass media and popular...
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Episode 11 - In this very special episode, I'm joined by Pete Whiting (@Mr_van_W), Shawtima Rakovsky(@ShawtimaSmiles), and Steven Kolber (@steven_kolber) in a crossover between Teachers Talking Teaching and Oh, The Humanities! (and Social Sciences). We talk about all of the happenings from RESCON Australia 2018, flipped learning, and everything else related to teaching!Please subscribe and leave a review!@MrMCimino
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Dr Justin Colson talks about London Bridge which has existed in one form or another since the fourteenth century. He explores the social world of the Bridge in the late fifteenth century, and how the economic activities of its tenants exploited the opportunities of this unique location, providing new insight into the commercial world of the late medieval City of London.
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How do artists and poets create dialogues with the past? Prof. Robin Cormack explores the way in which the artists feature in the exhibition 'Myths, Memories and Mysteries', jointly hosted by the Museum of Classical Archaeology and Wolfson College, revisit and remember Greek histories.
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This talk examines the gendered political culture of the Victorian House of Commons by looking at the efforts that politicians made to appear ‘manly'. This culture had very real political significance: it shaped the interactions between politicians, it shaped their public images, and it underpinned the opposition to admitting women as members of parliament.
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This year is the 500th anniversary of the birth of Teresa, one of the foremost ‘mystical' writers of the Christian tradition. Research in the last fifty years has clarified more and more the nature of her social background in a converted Jewish family and thus the way in which her religious writing is shaped by the issues and politics of 16th century Spain. I hope to sketch this background and offer some more general reflections on the title.
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Dr Alexi Baker's research over the past decade has revealed how ‘scientific instruments' before the rise of modern science included everything from cutting-edge technologies and everyday tools to fashionable accessories and entertainments. She discusses how London dominated the early modern trade in these wares - outfitting science, fashion, and diverse other pastimes and professions across Europe.
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This talk explores the familiar topic of Chile under the Popular Unity Government (1970-1973) from a less familiar angle: the indigenous heartlands of the south. Here, unresolved territorial conflicts between European settlers and the Mapuche people accentuated the political divisions of a nation-state in denial about its indigenous heritage. Through the history of the Araucanía region, we can understand the obstacles to Allende's “Chilean road to Socialism”, the hopes of Che...
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The recent forced resignation of Mr Justice Coleridge prompts questions about rogue judges and the boundaries of judicial misconduct. How far may a judge express controversial opinions? How far may his personal convictions influence his decisions? Clashes with the Executive and with his fellow judges characterised the judicial career (1916-1933) of Mr Justice McCardie -`rebel judge who feared nobody'. Did his iconoclasm help or hinder reform of the law? Maverick or hero?
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How does a Lovari extended family enact the sharing of material resources, and of intangible gifts conveyed through gesture, dance, song and speech? How do these practices confer identity and what may they have in common with those of certain communities in Europe, perhaps in the Middle East and Central Asia, and in their country of origin - India? After a brief overview of current knowledge and hypotheses regarding the origin of Romani communities, with some comments on their distribution in...
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By the time neutral America officially joined WWI in April 1917 as an “Associate” of the Allies, Theodore Roosevelt had for two and a half years been carrying on a quixotic and unpopular struggle at home. This domestic crusade was fought against what he considered the craven neutrality of Woodrow Wilson, whose very presence in the White House TR blamed on himself. This talk examines these years in the multiple, intertwined, contexts of Roosevelt's post-presidential political career, the...
Topics: Podcast, WW1, Theodore Roosevelt
Professor Robert Koepp examines how Eliot's characters struggle with the profoundly human inclination to trust in luck by worshiping at the altar of 'blessed Chance'- arguing that this tendency is central to the novelist's treatment of various moral dilemmas in her fiction.
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Cambridge English Language Assessment tests more than 5 million learners of English in over 100 countries every year and this constitutes a major asset in delivering the University's educational mission around the world. However, a key question for Cambridge English is how to promote the wider use of English while at the same time supporting the learning and uses of many other languages - hence the title of the talk. Dr Saville will discuss this issue of “multilingualism” - a research theme...
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Why did Lincoln prompt a discussion of Sappho in the American Senate? And how does this lead us to explore why Sappho was good to represent for nineteenth century artists and what do these representations tell us about female desire in this era and the role of the classical past in it?
Topic: Podcast
The talk will examine the history of Zimbabwe since Independence in 1980, paying particular attention to the origins and nature of the country's economic and political crisis.
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Humanities Day is an annual celebration of the Humanities presented by the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago. Each year, alumni and other friends of the University interact with leading scholars and artists on a day filled with lectures, readings, discussions, tours, and exhibitions. Archived from iTunes at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/humanities-day/id494124041. Items in this collection are restricted.
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This talk explores the ways in which the Marinid dynasty in Morocco exploited architecture and display to legitimise themselves before their subjects, a volatile mix of restive tribesmen and proud urbanites. Marinid ceremonial and demonstrations of power served to win over public opinion by providing employment and stimulating the economy in a manner as familiar today as it was then.
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A registered trade mark acts an indication of origin for goods but tells us nothing specific about the circumstances under which the goods originated. This limitation was not inevitable. After trade marks became objects of registration in 1875, what information they would embody was a matter of heated contestation between manufacturers, retailers, exporters, trade unions and anti-immigration activists. This lecture will examine this debate and suggest why, in the end, it was the interests of...
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Plato began the discussion about the purpose of education. Each succeeding age has given its own answers. Now it is our turn.
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This lecture was given in place of the advertised lecture by Professor Sir David Cannadine who was unable to attend.
Topics: Podcast, History, Victorian, Britain, Richard Evans
There were two categories of women in Henrik Ibsen's life: the women in his dramatic universe and the women in his own life. Ibsen's attitude to women is highly complex: whereas the many women who inhabit the different settings of these late nineteenth century bourgeois families are as diverse as the plays themselves, they share a few common denominators, that this talk will seek to demonstrate.
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Constance Markievicz (nee Gore-Booth, 1868-1927), was born to the privileged Protestant upper class in the west of Ireland. She embraced suffrage and then scandal as she left the Slade School of Art in London for a bohemian life in a Parisian atelier. There she met Casimir Dunin Markievicz (1874-1932), becoming part of a local avant-garde, which had the painter and mystic, George Russell (AE) at its centre. The Markievices took a prominent role in anti-imperial debates that not only related to...
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The description of Esau's family in Genesis 36 and I Chronicles 1 has the figure of Timna change gender in the span of a few verses. She is a concubine, a sister, and then a male head of a clan. This study uses archaeology to help us understand the function of multiple genders in the Hebrew Bible's genealogies which originated as oral mental maps of how the various Canaanite tribes related to one another politically and economically.
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The discovery of a spring complex, adjacent to Vespasian's Camp and just over a mile from Stonehenge, with well preserved and substantial Mesolithic deposits, potentially transforms our understanding of the Mesolithic use of the pre Stonehenge landscape, and the establishment of its later ritual landscape. This talk outlines the newly discovered local landscape history of the Vespasian's Camp area, the field interventions, and concludes with a review of the site and its wider significance and...
Topics: Podcast, Archaeology, Archaeology and Anthropology, History
The media's obsession with weight is perceived as a recent phenomenon but we have been struggling with what, when, and how we eat ever since the Greeks first pinched an inch. This surprising and sometimes shocking talk exposes the anxieties, fashions and ‘anti-fat cures' that have driven an expanding dieting industry, and reveals the extreme and often dangerously absurd lengths people have gone to in order to slim down.Slides from the presentation can be viewed at:...
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The two most fundamental transformations of economic life in human history were the Neolithic food revolution and the industrial revolution. It is no surprise that the latter was unexpected by contemporaries, but it is intriguing and instructive that those who were best informed, such as, for example, Adam Smith and the other classical economists, were explicit that such a transformation was impossible. The paradox can be resolved, however, by considering the role of energy supply in the...
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Arguments about climate change are rife with conspiracy theories. There are those who think the whole thing is a giant hoax: a scam cooked up by environmentalists and left-wing scientists to empower governments and rip off consumers. But there are equivalent suspicions on the other side: a belief that the sceptics and denialists are just the front for an oil industry-funded plot to bamboozle voters and keep the fossil fuels flowing. The prevalence of these kinds of conspiracy theories is one...
Topics: Podcast, climate change, conspiracy theories
The economic historian Charles Ryle Fay (1884-1961) was a staunch advocate of workers' and women's rights, and also became one of the leading British machine gunners during World War One. As an economist his associates included Alfred Marshall, JM Keynes and Sir Austin Robinson; as a historian he taught at Cambridge University for almost thirty years and in Canada in the 1920s, writing twenty books, including idiosyncratic works defying biographical norms - on his heroes William Huskisson and...
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This paper argues that neoliberalism offers a highly productive site to excavate the ways in which Cold War power/knowledge formations have shaped, and continue to shape, sociological thinking, and suggest that post-socialism can make similar critical intervention into sociological thought as postcolonial and feminist scholarship, since it challenges us to rethink some key epistemological and ontological issues in sociological knowledge production.
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The economist John Maynard Keynes' activities on the stock market are well known. One company in which he bought stocks in the late 1920s was the Hector Whaling Company Ltd. The paper explores how Keynes became involved in this company and the analysis provides new insights to the more general question on the motivations and decisions behind his stock market investments.
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Hinduism is by far the majority culture of India, which is set fair to become a superpower in the next few decades. How then does the polycentric, decentralizing phenomenon of Hinduism influence and guide the gaze of Hindus at the world and help determine their interactions with it, especially in the context of modernity and its counteracting forces? And what can we learn from this encounter?
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rasmus Darwin - Charles's grandfather - was well-known among his eighteenth-century contemporaries, highly respected by many but reviled by others. Energetic and sociable, this corpulent tee-totaller wrote best-selling poems on plants, technology and evolution. He also ran a successful medical practice, was a Fellow of the Royal Society and promoted industrialization by sponsoring science, innovation and entrepreneurship in the Midlands. In her research, Patricia Fara has explored fresh ways of...
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Corpus Christi College possesses one of the oldest extant illustrated manuscripts, the St Augustine Gospels from the sixth century. This lecture discusses the origin of illustrated books in Late Antiquity and their earliest appearance in biblical texts. This famous Gospel Book is thought to have been brought from Italy to England by St Augustine of Canterbury on his mission to evangelise the Anglo-Saxons in 597. The evidence for and against this identification will be discussed.
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From the late fifteenth century, the walls of Italian shrines became crowded with tavolette dipinte - small painted wooden boards recording instances of sickness, violence, accidents, natural disasters and demonic possession, and attesting to the miraculous intervention of the Virgin Mary and other saints. Dr Laven shall explore the significance of this new cultural form and contextualize the appeal of pictorial ex votos with reference both to grander trends in Renaissance art and to the...
Topics: Podcast, Renaissance, Italy, religious art
E.M. Forster's famous phrase, ‘Only Connect', is not only a guide to a successful emotional life; it is also a guide to cognition. The universities were reformed in the nineteenth century but despite this they still lacked curiosity, imagination and originality, in short, what we might call research. Consequently the cultivation of knowledge was thrust out into those colonies of learned societies which emerged in this period: the Royal Society, the Metaphysical Society, the Philological...
Topics: Podcast, Only Connect, Learned Sociieties, History, Learning
Theatres today are places of entertainment, dark spaces in which we cut ourselves off from the realities of daily life for a few hours. But theatre for the ancient Greeks was anything but a space of entertainment and escapism. It was a central pillar in the way their society - and particularly democratic society - functioned; a space in which every citizen was expected to be active and play their part. In this talk, I use the theatre as a way in to thinking about the nature of ancient Greek...
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This talk reviews the extent of Iraq's transformation over the last ten years, looking at what Iraq's experience shows about the limits of political change in a region marked by deep legacies of violence and oppression, unresolved social divisions and external interference.
Topic: Podcast
When does criticism of Israel become antisemitic? This longstanding debate was revived last summer in the context of British and European responses to Israel's assault on Gaza. David Feldman will analyse last summer's controversies as well as the question of when, if ever, criticism of Israel is a form of racism.
Topic: Podcast
Prof Szreter will discuss the costs and benefits of the long-term history of a national social security system in Britain. He will argue that such a perspective is important for evaluating the current political and policy choices being proposed by the major parties in the general election
Topic: Podcast
Although there have been a large number of books busy explaining that advances in neuroscience are due to revolutionise, or at the very least underpin and accelerate, our understanding of human nature, there has been less reflection on just how likely or unlikely that is. In this talk I hope to suggest that the issue is a good deal more complex than some of the more triumphalist, and optimistic, writings in this genre seem to think.
Topic: Podcast
In this anniversary year - 50 years since the death of Winston Churchill and 70 years since the end of WWII - Warren Dockter will look at Churchill's long relationship with the Islamic world and his lasting legacy in the Middle East, which continues to be felt in the region and in British policy today.
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